Pete Domenici: “First of all, it is obvious on the point of the President's budget and this budget that this isn't the President's…”

“First of all, it is obvious on the point of the President's budget and this budget that this isn't the President's budget, it is Congress's budget. The President's budget is alive. The President's veto powers are alive. What we are trying to do is pass some constraints that Congress will impose on itself in terms of entitlements, which have the opportunity of going through the roof in hundreds of billions of dollars, between now and October 1 and thereafter with no 60-vote point of order. Down at the end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Mr. OMB Director, just get the President ready when this Congress sends entitlement programs that are going through the roof, because the 60 votes won't be available here, and they will end up on your desk. The Senator from Texas said it 10 times, but I will only say it once. I am with the President. He is the best President we will have in this century. When his first term is finished, that is what we will begin saying about him.”